The movie I’m doing this review on is “Zathura”. I choose Zathura because it is a good movie. Zathura is about two brothers who are left at home with their older sister. (Which she doesn’t watch them well). The two brothers play a game called “Zathura” which comes to stop the bad things from happening they have to finish the game. My favorite character was the “Robot”. Even though they only showed him once he was funny. My least favorite character was the older brother, because he was mean and had a bad attitude.

The movie I’m doing this review on is “Zathura”. I choose Zathura because it is a good movie. Zathura is about two brothers who are left at home with their older sister. (Which she doesn’t watch them well). The two brothers play a game called “Zathura” which comes to stop the bad things from happening they have to finish the game. My favorite character was the “Robot”. Even though they only showed him once he was funny. My least favorite character was the older brother, because he was mean and had a bad attitude.

Book Reviews

Five Stars

Inkheart is a wonderful, exciting story. I loved it because characters got to come out of the books. There is also a movie which is really cool to watch. My favorite character is Meggie because she read Tinkerbell out of the book and because she shared her father's gift. I think all ages could enjoy it except for really small kids.

A little boy named Willy is going to race in a dogsled race, because his grandfather is very sick. While his grandfather is sick a tax collector comes bye and Willy's grandfather is sick, he doesn't have the money. So the tax collector has to take the house, but there is a lot of people racing in the race, and one of them is Stone Fox. He has never lost a race.

Conspiracy 365 by Gabrielle Lord
This is a series of twelve books that I am reading. I love these books becuase they are filled with action, worry, and suspence. Callum Ormond is my favorite character. He is a hunted fugitive and is now on the run. Callum is only 15 years old and he has to survive 365 days. I think that people who like action book would like this. Ages 10 to 15 would probly like it.

I love this book because it had a lot of action in it. I had a lot of favorite characters. This book is filled with action, humor, and mystery. This book is for kids who like action and humor. I loved this book and so will you. Their are 4 books in this series so read them all.

I love this book because it is about a bunch of friends putting something together. My favorite character is Kate because she never gives up and you can tell she is kindhearted and determined. She didn't stop trying to earn money for her dad's b-day present. This is a great book for kids that are thinking about having a lemonade stand.

A World Away is about a 16-year old named Eliza, who has been Amish all her life. She has never tried on a pair of jeans, never made a phone call, or watched TV. She is asked for a nanny job for two kids, and excited accepts. She learns the good, bad, and the ugly of learning of love, life, and lessons of the non-Amish world. She learns that most of the time, the life your blessed with is the life your meant to belong to, even if it doesn't seem that way. This was a phenomenal book!

I liked this book because it made you think about what is going to happen next. My favorite character is Meg. I like Meg because you can tell she is adventerous and likes taking risks. I think kids from 4th grade to 7th grade would like this adventerous tale.

I liked how the author made the setting feel like the future and it could happen. I felt like every chapter Lena was changing and starting to realize love is good and it is something to celebrate. I liked how the ending was put together. I feel like this was a fast paced book that left me wanting more at the end. I thought it was a great book.

I felt that Beautiful Creatures had a great story line. I liked that they placed it in the real world. It made it feel like it could happen. I liked how they made the connection with Lena and Ethan. It made it feel magical. All around it was a great book that most people would like to read.

It's very captivating with major romance and mystery. A simpleton guy from a small town finds out that this new summer time city isn't all its cracked up to be. There are real vampires and some aren't as friendly as they seem. It is truly a must read for the summer.

The book I'm doing my review on is "Matilda." I picked Matilda because it's one of my favorite books. I also enjoyed the movie. Matilda is about a little girl growing up on her own in a family she doesn't belong. She discovers that she has magical powers. In the end she was adopted by her teacher which she loved, and they lived happily ever after.

Curing disease seems to be the new big thing around books these days, yet out of all of them this just might be my favorite. First starting it I thought it was as boring as all heck and put it down, but like anything you can’t start something and not finish it so, I did and absolutely loved it. I highly highly recommend it and if you have the same trouble as me, push through it: I promise it gets better, way better. The characters are really interesting, but I think it is the plot that is the most intriguing. I would recommend this for the young adults age group (teens).

Clearly with a rating of five, I enjoyed this book. It was a play off of the original story “Cinderella,” a story that I basically hated as a kid because the main heroine was pathetic and never stood up for herself. The tomboy Cinder is the exact opposite, someone people can actually relate to and an all around likeable character. Cinder was very much original because it didn’t take the exact same story/plotline and rewrite it as a modern story, but took the basic skeleton of the story and added tons of new components making it a new story. It might have been pretty predictable throughout, but overall was really good, so I’m excited for the next 3 books!

This book was outstanding! Yes, it was and is most definitely meant for an older audience (teens and such) but half of the obscenities are what make this book so great. I’m sure a lot of teens can relate to what went on in this book. It was hilarious, thought provoking, heart wrenching, and just about every other emotion there is all at the same time. I myself did not enjoy the back cover’s description. I don’t think it made for an intriguing sort of “explanation”, but ignore the back. I did and LOVED this book. So obviously I recommend this book, along with his other books which are also really good.

This review is on “Witness”. I chose this book because it is a good/sad book. This book is about a lot of different things but it’s basicly about a Klu Klux Klan group in a small town in Vermont. This book is very racist but it ends up being good in the end. My favorite character was Esther Hirsh a 6 year old girl from New York.

My book review is on “The BFG.” Also known as “The Big Friendly Giant.” This is a very popular children’s story. I read it for the first time when I was in 2nd grade. This book is mainly about a little girl named Sophie who lived in an orphanage, and one night she was awake and was kidnapped by a friendly giant and taken to giant land where many giants lived. In the end the giant was able to come live with everyone and treated normal. My favorite character was Sophie because she was intelligent.

This book was really great. I had seen it on shelves for quite some time and it wasn’t until a while that I picked it up and really saw its…awesomeness. Although I must say it got a little confusing eventually.

Bloomability is about a girl who’s family moves a lot – ever 6 months to a new place. Soon she is sent to Switzerland, which she hates, and learns how to speak Italian, Spanish, Japaneze, and French at an American School. She soon makes close friends w/ some of her peers and goes on a skiing trip w/ them. Two of them are burried in an avalanche, and I won’t tell you if they survive. She soon loves this school and can not bear to leave her friends (some who are not coming back next year) and their is no guarantee she will. She soon learns the value of friendship and that no one will ever forget her.

Review by Kaylin, Grade 6

Four Stars

1812: A War That Forged a Nation by Walter R. Borneman
Not knowing much about the war of 1812, or having an intense desire to put forth the extra participation in the history of our country, this non-fiction is written with the intention of getting the attention of the younger generation.
Younger generations on occasion associate history with school, and in the beginning of the summer that is the last thing anyone wants to think about. This story of the war, the living conditions, and the tensions of the years preceding 1812 until the years dating after the war, shows relations to the present. The relations are not in the difficulties, but more so in the language and thoughts of America's founders.
These similarities cause the formation of fantastic relationships. These relationships are between the reader and the historical figures, in this historical review. This author is successful his attempt to connect the present and the past.
This written piece is helpful in preparing for future history based classes, as well as impressing friends and colleagues with esteemed knowledge of a historical event. Over all, this piece is a needed read, if not for the historical knowledge, then for the extreme vocabulary.

This adventure with Katie Kazoo is as wild as always. Her teacher Mrs. Derkman moves in next door. What a surprise. Once again the magic wind comes and turns her into Pepper. Pepper (Katie) does some crazy stuff and then when she turns back into herself she fixes everything. Pepper is my favorite character.

Francine and Muffy have a bet that Francine can't be nice for a whole week. Muffy bets her Princess Peach watch. Arthur and his friends push Francine to the limit but she holds back her temper. My favorite character is Muffy. Find out what happens to Francine as she tries to be nice for a whole week.

This book is amazing! It's about 2 rabbits named Hazel and Fiver who try to leave their home warren. It really makes you think about how rabbits live in the wild and how similar and at the same time how different rabbits are to humans.

I loved Fairest because it was about things like love and hatred and there were a lot of details which helped me get an image of the story in my head, making the story better. My favorite character was Ijory because he was nice to everyone. I think someone who enjoyed magical things, like fairies, would like it.

A girl named Amu Hinamori wants to be her true self. She ends up with 3 character guardians who help her. People that work for Easter steal her eggs and guardians! She has to protect them and save the characters.

I’d say this was a pretty good book. If you enjoy modern adaptations of classic books or old fairy tales, I think you would enjoy this book. This book is really inventive, gorey, and definitely draws the reader in. Although the end was sort of anticlimactic, the whole rest of the book was really enthralling, though you still want to know what happens in the next 2 books. I would recommend this for maybe the younger teens and older kids.

The book I choose to do this review on is “Middle School.” I choose this book because it comes from a great series. This book is about Georgea Khatchadorian who plans to do good in her middle school but along the way her brother fails and it brings her reputation of a “good student” down. My favorite character is Rafe, which is the brother who is failing in school.

Review by Mariah, Grade 9

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Movie, Music and Audiobook Reviews

Five Stars

I decided to do my review on “Rango” because it’s a very extravagant movie due to the fact that the animals talk! In this movie there is a chameleon “Rango” who has to find his inner voice. In the beginning he gets dropped out of his car and is stranded in the desert. He becomes the sheriff of a small town which has a evil plotting major who has all of the water to build a new town. My favorite character was “Rango” which is the main character.

Review by Mariah, grade 9

Four Stars

The movie I'm doing this review on is "Holes." I decided to do a review on this movie because it's one of my favorites. This movie is mainly about Stanley Yelnats gets sent away to a correctional camp for stealing shoes, that he was wrongly accused for. There family believes in this 100 year old curse that his great great grandfather put on them. In the end he finds a treasure chest that was meant for him all along, but throughout the whole movie they would look back into the past and tell the story of "kissing Kate Barlow." Which was one of my favorite characters, my other favorite character was Theodore aka "Arm pit."

The movie I’m doing this review on is “Zathura”. I choose Zathura because it is a good movie. Zathura is about two brothers who are left at home with their older sister. (Which she doesn’t watch them well). The two brothers play a game called “Zathura” which comes to stop the bad things from happening they have to finish the game. My favorite character was the “Robot”. Even though they only showed him once he was funny. My least favorite character was the older brother, because he was mean and had a bad attitude.